If you study science — and I haven’t since high school, so bear with me — you probably understand that correlation is not the same as causation. Just because two phenomena seem to be connected doesn’t ...

At its core, climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Many times, the shifts are natural but more recently, human activities have been the main proponent of ...

The dreamy haziness that defines much of Claude Monet’s work has long been chalked up to the artistic aims of Impressionism, the movement with which he has long been synonymous. But a new scientific ...

The artist Jordan Weber’s queenly sculpture in a Detroit park does double duty as an air quality monitor. By Patricia Leigh Brown Reporting from Detroit The East Canfield Village neighborhood of ...